Cycle highways are making the commute safer, faster, cheaper, healthier
and greener in a country where many of the capital’s residents already
bike to work.
In
April, Copenhagen opened the first of 26 planned “bicycle
superhighways” in the hopes that more of its residents would opt out of
driving a car to work. To lure bikers, the city has equipped the 11-mile
path from Copenhagen to the suburb Alberslund with “green wave”
technology that times traffic lights for greatest bike efficiency and
footrests where weary commuters can take a breather. A story in
Tuesday’s
New York Times highlighted the initiative.
Biking is already wildly popular within the capital because it is the
fastest and easiest way to get to work or school. Copenhagen has been
redesigning its streets for years now in order to make biking the norm.
The city is now so bike-friendly that it has spawned a new urban
planning concept: “
Copenhagenization” or urban planning centered around making cities less car dependent. According to the
Cycling Embassy of Denmark, 36 percent of all Danish adults rode a bike to work and 45 percent of all Danish children biked to school in 2010.
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